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Women in Their 30s who 'Hit the Weights' While Dieting Get Toned = 2lbs of Fat Loss for Each 1lbs of Muscle They Gain

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Shape's "fat loss" variety of the FITT workout still focuses on cardio. This article is about a paper by Miller et al. (2017) that is going to be published in one of the next issues of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism . The study itself is thus clearly 'news'. What's not news, however, is the message that women benefit (just as much if not more) from lifting weights while dieting as men. Unfortunately, the message is rarely heard and often ignored. Obviously, the lure of the calorie counters on the treadmills and crosstrainers of this world is too strong for the average diet-willing female human being to resist trampling along on the crosstrainer to burn 500kcal and thus afford/make good for "that pizza" (" Never Train to Burn Calories "). When it comes to toning, men and women are not different, but in other areas they are! 1g PRO per 2g CHO + Circuit T. for Women? Is the Optimal Exercis...
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Protein - 0.8g/kg Insufficient for Female Athletes, Too. Plus: Revised RDA is 1.71-2.2 g/kg/d Depending on Sport & Sex

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With average daily protein intakes of only 90±24 g (Gillen 2017), many female athletes are probably missing the sweet spot of ~1.7g/kg/d. I guess I am preaching to the choir when I write that the recommended daily allowance (the magical "RDA") for protein is laughable; the number of studies which show that an increased protein intake will have beneficial metabolic effects is increasing by the day; the subjects of these studies are men and women, kids, teens, tweens, adults, and grandparents, perfectly healthy or sick, lean or fat... and in all of these increasing the protein intake to ~2x the RDA of 0.8g/kg has been found to be associated with significant beneficial effects on body composition and/or health in the majority of the studies ( learn more ). High-protein diets are much safer than some 'experts' say, but there are things to consider... Practical Protein Oxidation 101 5x More Than the FDA Allows! 2017 Evidence for Protein Timing Satiety: ...
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Macros & Calories Don't Count? Better Food Choices Make Diet More Than 10x More Effective for PCOS Sufferers

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Normal-weight women can have PCOS, too. Recently, Macruz et al. did DXA scans on young women with PCOS and a normal BMI and found increased truncal and leg fat compared to healthy controls in a similar age (12–39 years) and BMI range (at least 18.5 but below 25 | Macruz. 2017). More evidence that weight alone doesn't explain PCOS. PCOS is by no means an issue only obese women suffer from. Yes, obesity is  and will always be  the #1 risk factor for developing the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS = a condition in which a woman's levels of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone are out of balance; this leads to the growth of ovarian cysts (benign masses on the ovaries); PCOS can cause problems with a women's menstrual cycle, fertility, cardiac function, and appearance), but eventually it seems as if both occurred in response to the same hitherto not fully elucidated triggers. In that, it is unquestionable that a woman's diet plays a minor part in the dev...
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Dieting Down to ~10% Body Fat for Women: Contest Prep Study - Deficits, Muscles, Hormones and the Yo-Yo Effect

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This would unquestionably be at the lower end of contest BF% levels (avg. 12%) the women in this study achieved, The number of studies on fitness and bodybuilding competitions is limited. Probably you will remember my previous discussions of the paper/s by Rossow, et al. ("Natural bodybuilding competition preparation and recovery: a 12-month case study." | 2013)  Kistler, et al. ("Case Study: Natural Bodybuilding Contest Preparation." International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism", 2014), and  Robinson et al. ("A nutrition and conditioning intervention for natural bodybuilding contest preparation: case study" | 2015). And yes, three is not just the number of studies that I've covered at the SuppVersity , it's also the number of decently recent studies dabbling with dieting down for a contest in one of the "physique sports". High protein helps, but do not counter the weight-loss-induced changes in RMR ...
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Women Have a Hard(er) Time Losing Body Fat W/ Exercise 'cause it Increases Their Appetite More Than Men's, Right?

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Is she going to binge after this body weight squat workout? Nah, don't worry... I've repeatedly written about studies that show that the Taubs'ian notion that "exercise is useless because it just makes you hungry" is bullsh*t. It is indeed useless to work out to burn calories, it is yet never useless to work out - even if fat loss, not health or longevity is your goal. What you should be aware of, though, is that there is a gender bias in the selecting of subjects in health sciences; and since the average subject in nutrition and exercise sciences is male and studies that have enough male and female subjects to identify relevant sex differences are rare, we don't really know if everything that has been "scientifically proven" can also be considered "scientifically proven" for female dieters and/or trainees. Learn more about the (often ;-) small but significant difference at the SuppVersity 1g PRO per 2g CHO + Circuit T. for Wome...
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